PSALM 7: A PSALM OF CROSSED CONDITION AND TO OVERCOME ENEMIES PLOTTING AGAINST YOU

Psalm 7

1 O Yahweh my Elohim, I have taken refuge in you.
    Save me, and rescue me from all who are pursuing me.
        
            and drag me off with no one to rescue me.

3 O Yahweh my Elohim,
    if I have done this—
        if my hands are stained with injustice,
        
            or rescued someone who has no reason to attack me—

5 then let the enemy chase me and catch me.
    Let him trample my life into the ground.
        Let him lay my honor in the dust. Selah

6 Arise in anger, O Yahweh.
    Stand up against the fury of my attackers.
    Wake up, my God.
    You have already pronounced judgment.
        
            Take your seat high above them.
8 Yahweh judges the people of the world.
    Judge me, O Yahweh,
    according to my righteousness,
    according to my integrity.

9 Let the evil within wicked people come to an end,
    but make the righteous person secure,
        O righteous Elohim who examines thoughts and emotions.
10 My Magen is Elohim above,
    who saves those whose motives are decent.

11 Elohim is a fair Shophet,
    an El who is angered by injustice every day.
12 If a person does not change, Elohim sharpens his sword.
    By bending his bow, he makes it ready to shoot.
13 He prepares his deadly weapons
    and turns them into flaming arrows.
14 See how that person conceives evil,
    is pregnant with harm,
        and gives birth to lies.
15 He digs a pit and shovels it out.
    Then he falls into the hole that he made for others.
16 His mischief lands back on his own head.
    His violence comes down on top of him.

17 I will give thanks to Yahweh for his righteousness.
    I will make music to praise the name of Yahweh Elyon.

PRAYER: 

Oh, Eel Slijon! Great, strong and highest God! May it please thee to change the hearts of my enemies and opposers, that they may do me good instead of evil, as thou didst in the days of Abraham when he called upon thee by this holy name. Amen. Selah!